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What to watch: Senate, House races

1. LARRY FLYNT HAS AKIN’S ATTENTION — Rep. Todd Akin, an evangelical Christian and the GOP Senate nominee in Missouri, mentioned the Hustler magazine publisher by name Monday during a brief stop at the Republican headquarters in St. Charles County. Flynt raised eyebrows recently by offering the St. Louis-area congressman $1 million if he could produce evidence proving his assertion that female bodies have ways of preventing pregnancies after rape. “You saw [Sen. Claire McCaskill’s] most recent advocate for womens’ rights: Larry Flynt,” Akin told a supporter in St. Peters, cracking himself up. “This smells like desperation.” The supporter chimed in: “At least she didn’t bring Michael J. Fox back here.”

Fox, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, cut an ad for McCaskill during her first Senate campaign in 2006, praising her support for stem cell research. On Sunday, publicity hound Flynt took out a half-page ad in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, vowing to make Akin a millionaire. “I assume you would never have ventured such an original statement about women’s reproductive biology, and suggested that women should have no fear of unwanted pregnancy from rapists, unless have in your possession completely conclusive evidence,” Flynt wrote in an open letter to Akin. Akin was also asked about Flynt’s $1 million challenge during a stop in Florissant later in the day, KMOX reported.

2. CLINTON ROBOS FOR WARREN — On Sunday, Elizabeth Warren received a good luck phone call from President Barack Obama. Now, on election eve, she’s getting a robocall from former President Bill Clinton, who is delivering one of Warren’s favorite arguments. “We can’t let Scott Brown and the Republicans take over the Senate and block President Obama’s agenda,” Clinton says in the call. In an interview on a local television affiliate Monday morning, Warren championed returning to the tax rates during the Clinton years. “The Clinton years were good years for the top 2 percent,” she said. Sen. Scott Brown’s campaign said the comment showed Warren “never met a tax increase she didn’t like.”

Akin will loose as will Murdouch. Would have liked Carmona to win AZ but it would still be Flake. Conn is close but I see Murphy winning the day by hanging on to Presidents coattail....and the best of all I can feel that Warren is gonna make it in Mass.

Just a afterthought how is Romney loosing in all of his three homestates ? (MI, MA and NH ????) . if pepole back home don't like you then it is tooo tough for the neighborhood folks to love ya. Cannot think of a President who lost his home state and then went on to win presidency. Even Bill Clinton got Arkansas.

As a Republican, I wanted the Senate to change hands very badly, but I have to say the party has no long-term future with buffoons like Akin. I'm glad the NRSC washed their hands of this jackass. In the long run, it it's a good thing we disavow these fools. Let him drift off into the sunset and NEVER be heard from again.

" As a Republican, I wanted the Senate to change hands very badly, but I have to say the party has no long-term future with buffoons like Akin. I'm glad the NRSC washed their hands of this jackass. In the long run, it it's a good thing we disavow these fools. Let him drift off into the sunset and NEVER be heard from again." : That's why their are four GOP senators campaigning with Akin right now. The NRSC is still very involved with Mourdock's campaign. As a matter of fact, they're pouring money in to it. John Kyl had no problem with what Mourdock said. The NRSC didn't wash their hands. They have let the support go over to super-PACs and other organizations. Your party is a joke. They are willing to elect freaking religious fundamentalists for their own political gain. These guys are from the same cloth as the Taliban. and you support this party? Pathetic.

Not surprisingly, Flynt's offer is more valid than Trump's. As an Independent I really try to stay open minded but when the GOP is fielding guys like Akin and Mourdock it really takes the whole party out of the running.

Kentsan As a Republican, I wanted the Senate to change hands very badly, but I have to say the party has no long-term future with buffoons like Akin. I'm glad the NRSC washed their hands of this jackass. In the long run, it it's a good thing we disavow these fools. Let him drift off into the sunset and NEVER be heard from again.

Don't know if you're familiar or not, but we had one, and maybe 2 primary candidates who could have rolled Claire -- but in as cynical a political move as I've ever seen, she ran an anti-Akin ad before the primary that convinced too many of the MO Republican voters that he was just who we should run against her, because, in her words, he was "too conservative for Missouri". Up 'til then, he'd run a very weak campaign, and had little chance. Politically, it was a smart move on her part, but it was just one more example of the little respect she has for Missourians. Like him or not -- proud of him or not -- I'll be voting for Akin.